Quote Originally Posted by The Fightfan View Post
I will surely be one to say that Floyd beat up a smaller man because he did. Marquez is fighting a man who fought a 154 at one point and the highest was 135 for Marquez that is a 19 pound difference. Not to mention Mayweather retired and probably walked around at 155 during retirement. Marquez has really nothing in his favor in this fight except the ability to recoop quickly and maybe maybe a slight edge in counterpunching. I sure as shit hope Marquez can pull this is out but my head says no way.
to be technical, floyd weighed 150 during the oscar fight fight.. maybe even less.

Marquez is definitely a "smaller" guy when you look at the weight classes, but I wouldn't say Floyd is extremely significantly more powerfull than JMM..

Jmm knocked Pac down, KO'd Diaz, KO'd Casamayor all at 135..

Hatton was the first guy Floyd KO'd at WW.. someone with no defense.. and the last guy in the past four years..

While an academic point with the weight classes, when you look at reality, the strength difference isn't much of a discrepency.